“for the little that they earn”
Try telling that to the good people of Bell, California...
As I stated; "I would be the first to say some of it is justified, but much of it is not." One thing that bothers me about that incident. City/county employees are public employees and their wages/salaries are a matter of public record. Why didn't anyone (public/newspapers/etc) notice this long time ago? Just curious about it, that's all.
Low, way low. Those asses were crooks and upper level city managers. Non union public works employees, the ones that are maintaining infrastructure, are taking the fiscal beating the bureaucrats should be taking. I know exactly what Traveler69 is talking about.
Without these dedicated hard working people, you would be in a world of filth and squalor. A city's most valuable asset is it's infrastructure, based on replacement costs. Traveler69 has my thanks.